Tag: Trine Lise Andersen

Soccer, a.k.a (association) football is the most popular mass spectator sport in the world. Soccer & Society is the first international journal devoted to the game of soccer, and aims to focus on the game in the context of a more global world. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Governance of Chinese professional football during Xi’s authoritarian era: what is changing and what remains unchanged by Yang Ma & Jinming Zheng.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: National and Organizational Culture in Norwegian Elite Sport: The Account of National Handball Head Coaches by Eivind Å. Skille, Per Øystein Hansen, Frank Abrahamsen & Stiliani “Ani” Chroni.

I denne artikkelen av Trine Lise Andersen studeres lederstilen til landslagstrener i fotball i lys av toppfotballens rasjonalitet, der seier trumfer alt. Spørsmålet som drøftes er om treneren brukte både sin ofte kommuniserte transformasjonslederstil og en machiavellisk lederstil, og endret eventuelt balansen mellom disse lederstilene seg i forhold til lagets resultater. Antagelsen var at den machiavelliske lederstilen ville bli mer fremtredende når resultatene uteble.